Can You Hear Me Now?
I'm a Baby Boomer on the threshold of a birthday, so when I fuss about having trouble hearing in a theater, I wonder if I'm suffering from too many years of loud Rock music or perhaps just too many years of, well, life. But what I have been hearing recently are complaints from others…
Sound Advice: : Ra Ra Riot, Gods of Kansas and Ace Frehley
Ra Ra Riot Ra Ra Riot with The Little Ones and Pomegranates Wednesday
This American Life, Monday music at the CAC, Children of Eden, Hellbinki Sextet and much more
Taren Frazier Aretta Baumgartner (left) and Vince Stroud in Children of Eden WEDNESDAY 4/30 ONSTAGE: THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL I suspect that Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati's production of this 2004 show will be this spring's theatrical guilty pleasure. Trailer Park, a product of the 2004 New York Musical Theater Festival, sounds pretty…
Film: Aging Franchise Players
2008 Lucasfilm LTD Harrison Ford (left) shows Shia LaBeouf a thing or two in the latest Indiana Jones picture. Can you imagine Toby McGuire, at age 65, still playing Spider-Man? Or a Social Security-age Daniel Radcliffe still working his way through Harry Potter books, assuming J.K. Rowling or her estate still is writing new…
Getting the facts … and missing them
Kevin Osborne's April 23 Porkopolis column ("Streicher's Slippery Hold on the Facts") is the kind of rigorous reporting that exemplifies the adversarial relationship that sometimes exists between journalists and police. "Adversarial" doesn't have to mean "hostile" — the American judiciary system, for example, is purposefully adversarial. But in some cases, especially, when it comes to…
Music: Bad Religion
Dimmu-Borgir.com Norwegian Black Metal superstars Dimmu Borgir return with In Sorte Diaboli, a concept album about (what else?) the Anti-Christ Last year, Norwegian symphonic black metalists Dimmu Borgir released In Sorte Diaboli, it's ninth studio album and first ever concept album. However, those who thought of the concept album in the usual sense —…
Onstage: Review: The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Sandy Underwood (L-R) Deb G. Girdler, Gina Valentine and Sara Mackie star in The Great American Trailer Park Musical. I don't suppose it's likely that anyone will confuse The Great American Trailer Park Musical at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati (ETC) with Great American Ball Park. ETC has a hit on its hands, while the Reds…
Art: Review: All Mixed Up
Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center Jim Talkington's "Forgotten America" series look at life long ago. Antiques mix and mingle with modern technology in the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center's current show All Mixed Up. While the first floor is devoted solely to antique quilts, the artwork displayed on the Carnegie's second floor…
Cover Story: Dining Guide 2008
Sean Hughes Where to Eat: Serving up 250 great restaurants and 12 intriguing tables Quick link: 250 great restaurants Quick link: 12 great tables Quick link: Updates on local restaurant chefs/owners Welcome to the 2008 "Where to Eat" Dining Guide, CityBeat's annual springtime roundup of great restaurants in Greater Cincinnati. It's our food writers'…
Anissa Lewis and Lizz Godfroy
Lizz Godfroy and Anissa Lewis Lizz Godfroy (left) and Anissa Lewis During the month of May, artists Anissa Lewis and Lizz Godfroy are mounting a multimedia collaborative experiment called Vault, which opens Friday at Covington's Leapin' Lizard Gallery. Here, the duo shares their motivations, in their own words. (Tamera Lenz Muente) Godfroy: Cooking meals…
Another seven days of wasting food, ads for God and the ultimate sex deterrant
Better than Kroger ads? WEDNESDAY APRIL 23 Wanna know how to save the Earth? Well, we at WWE! don't really think it's possible, but the latest report from the United Nations' World Food Program suggests that it's not by powering our cars with food. Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, told…
222 Eyes in the Sky Downtown
Jason Kidwell Bill Brown is one paranoid dude. And now, thanks to his tour of downtown surveillance cameras, so am I. The two-hour walk-and-talk that took us all of 1 1/2 blocks — beginning in front of Nada at Sixth and Walnut streets, walking south to Fifth Street and ending in front of the…
Cover Story: Look Who’s (Still) Eating
David Cook David Cook Owner/Chef, Daveed's at 934 934 Hatch St., Mount Adams, 513-721-2665 David Cook is always up to something interesting at Daveed's, his cutting-edge Mount Adams bistro. Lately it's been tapas. Daveed's is offering a special event on Friday evenings in the art studio above the restaurant. There's a 26-seat communal table,…
Film: Blockbuster Nights
Warner Bros. Entertainment Christian Bale and Heath Ledger match wits in the latest Batman film. The Showcase Cinemas Erlanger will forever hold a special place in my movie-going heart. Once the palace of local multiplexes, Erlanger's long, narrow screening rooms and spacious, promotions-laden foyer were the stuff of childhood legend: My impressionable eyes took…
Looking for Grace in a Cincinnati Ghetto
For as long as I can remember, I've ended my letters and e-mails with the encouragement "Keep the faith." I must have picked that up from my father, since he's the only person I know who signs off the same way. It might have been more lucrative for me instead to have picked up "It's…
The Bold and the Confident
Is City Council's approval last week of the streetcar financing plan a tipping point for the urban core of Cincinnati? Or is it a boondoggle like our two costly stadiums on the river? Is the plan "big, bold, challenging and new," as Councilman Chris Bortz called it, something that will pull the city out of…
Review: Rima’s Diner
Joe Lamb Rima's Diner Sundays in the heart of America are when we slow down — we work in the yard, read the paper, have that second cup of coffee in the kitchen rather than the car. Sundays are also the day to go to breakfast. And while many people will hit the chains…
News: Jobs Are Not Created Equal
Joe Lamb Don Sherman says the Interfaith Worker's Center is needed more than ever. The "working poor" is one description for people who hold jobs but might not have the skills or life circumstances to make enough income to get out of poverty. Their jobs frequently take place in unhealthy, even unsafe, working conditions…
This Week in Wellness
This American Life brings its unique stories on national subculture and street level philosophers to the big screen. Watch with people from around the country at this simultaneous national screening. $20. 8 p.m. May 1. Showcase Cinemas Springdale, 12064 Springfield Pike, Springdale, 513-671-0140; and Regal Dearfield Town Center, 5500 Deerfield Blvd. Mason, 513-770-0713. Send your…
Impatience + Low Bankroll = Chaos for the Reds
Jerry Dowling There comes a point in every club owner's tenure when he makes himself truly responsible for the fate of his franchise. Bob Castellini brought that on himself last week when he fired Wayne Krivsky, as if to say the Reds need to change direction. Castellini conceded that he's "impatient" and "tired of…
Rise Up and Rule Yourself
Margo Pierce, as she always does, wrote a fair and balanced (shades of the Fox Network) cover story, ¨Ruling Class (issue of April 23). She brought in three expert points of view — Dan La Botz, Bill Woods and Michael Weissbuch — which is a big improvement over a typical ¨on the one hand then…
Music: What Lies Beneath
Oliver Meinerding "Let's up the punk," Kaleb Keefer says. Keefer and a few of his buddies share a dream. They've played in bands and have seen the local Punk scene, so they know it's fairly segregated. Punkers can't mosh up against a kid who wants to thrash and a Pop Punk Emo kid isn't…
It All Comes Out in the Wash
Actions speak louder than words, and all the money in the world can't buy a good reputation when reality paints a different picture. Two top executives at Mason-based Cintas Corp. recently made large donations to Xavier University in return for getting the company's name plastered on another building there. The multi-year grants from Board Chairman…
Souse (Profile)
Souse Souse Any area resident of Germanic extraction can tell you that souse is a weird, gelatinous meat product with a strange appeal. When former members of Final Exit were trying to come up with a name for their new Jazz combo four years ago, someone suggested Sauce, but it morphed into Souse, and…
News: Renewing the Cause
Emily Maxwell Bob Edgar hopes that legislatures in 12-14 key states help him change how the Electoral College selects presidents. Bob Edgar wants to change how the United States elects its president. That's just one of the goals that Edgar — a former Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania — has championed since he became president…
Cover Story: Where to Eat
Asian AmarinFlavor: Amarin is friendly, delicious and a great value. The Thai Jade Noodle is the the most flavorful spinach pasta we've ever tasted. Better yet is the duck, a boneless duck half seasoned and crisp fried, sliced and fanned into a big ceramic bowl and surrounded by fresh green beans and carrots. Flair: The…
Rumors, Lies and General Misunderstandings
· Soul-stirring, jaw-dropping local Blues/Rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Kelly Richey has a new album (her 11th!) ready for release. Carry the Light (put out through Richey's own label, Sweet Lucy Records) was written with local guitarist John Redell and songwriter Steve Carroll. Richey's CD release party for the new album this Sunday is a part of a…
Admit It: A Lousy Feminist
I turn, and a man is right there in front of me, pressing an "Admit One" carnival ticket into my hand. He lifts a voice recorder to my face. "Admit something," he says, his face expressionless. "I admit nothing," I say without thinking. "I wasn't even there." He blinks once, then he turns abruptly away.…
Art: A Cool Cat
Kurt Strecker The Flying Cat is filled to the brim with art of all flavors. "It's the one with the flying cats in the door," Julia Martin says when describing how to find her gallery/artist co-operative in Covington's Mainstrasse Village. Indeed, with its name and unusual cat-motif curtains on the front door, The Flying…
Amma’s Kitchen (Review)
Emily Maxwell Udipi Amma's Kitchen in Roselawn might be a heaven of sorts, but this isn't immediately obvious from its decor. Instead, the ambience says purgatory, with stiff maroon booths, beige walls, industrial carpeting and the plain, reception-hall formality typical of Indian restaurants. Amma's Kitchen, which means "Mother's Kitchen" in Hindi, seems in need…
